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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
With the campaign for president a little more than halfway over, Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) candidate Enrique Pena Nieto continues to maintain a commanding lead over his other rivals, according to polling data supplied by Milenio news daily.
Pena Nieto now has 47.6 percentage of voters over Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota, who has 26 percent. The margin between the two candidates has widened by more than 20 percent, the widest so far to date.
Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador remains in third place with 21.2 percent of voters.
When undecided voters are taken into account, Pena Nieto maintains a strong 17.3 percentage point margin over Vazquez Mota. Undecided voters have declined since the start of the month from 25.9 percent to 19.2 percent, probably indicating those voters are just now coming to terms with the candidates.
In what has been classified as a security incident, the security detail for Lopez Obrador detained an unidentified individual carrying a loaded gun at a campaign event Sunday night at Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Ecatepec (TESE) technical school in Mexico state. The armed individual was not turned over to state authorities and was apparently released.
Milenio news daily reported in a Monday evening post on their website that Lopez Orbador would reinforce his security, saying the incident was no different than risks run by Mexicans.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
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